The Top Five Quotes From the Sunday Talk Shows

Newly reelected New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie blitzed the Sunday talk show circuit after winning a second term last Tuesday and administration officials and lawmakers discussed the news that Iran and six world powers failed to reach a deal to freeze Tehran’s nuclear program in Geneva-based talks. Here are the top five quotes from today on those two news topics.

“Political advice from people who ran the Romney campaign is probably something nobody should really give a darn about,” New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said on ABC’s “This Week.” He was responding to a section of the new book “Double Down” that alleges a Mitt Romney campaign adviser felt issues in Mr. Christie’s background would make the New Jersey governor highly vulnerable to attacks in a national campaign. “What Gov. Romney said when he spoke last week was that none of this caused him any pause at all. And so I’ll take Mitt Romney’s interpretation of all this rather than some, you know, paid political consultant who was, you know, trying to make himself famous, obviously, in the book.”

“We’re all different states. Is a conservative in New Jersey a conservative in the rest of the country?” Texas Gov. Rick Perry said on “This Week” when asked whether Mr. Christie was a true conservative. “I’m just saying that we’ll have that discussion at the appropriate time.”

“I don’t want a North Korea in the Mideast, and that’s where we’re headed if we continue to negotiate the way we are,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) said on CNN’s “State of the Union” about the U.S. talks on Iran’s nuclear program. He said he believed there would be a bipartisan push in Congress to introduce another round of sanctions against Iran. “We believe that sanctions and the threat of military force is the only thing that’s going to bring the Iranians to the table.”

“The American people and most people in the world want the president of the United States, with the awesome power that we have, to exhaust all the diplomatic remedies before we resort to the use of military force, if we have to,” Secretary of State John Kerry said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” about the Iran talks. “That option is not off the table.”

“If I’m bothered by jokes about my weight, it’s time for me to curl up into the fetal position and go home,” Mr. Christie said on “This Week” when asked about the Time Magazine cover that included a picture of the governor with the headline, “The Elephant in the Room.” “If they think that’s clever, great for them.”

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